SW Radio Africa: Why Daniel Arap Moi has decided to support Kibaki

You can see how the huge numbers estimated for corruption in Africa are established from this story out of Kenya.

Kroll report on corruption in Kenya leaked

Kroll Associates is amongst the world's leading private investigation agencies. They appeared on my radar when I read fascinating accounts of how the tracked down money stolen and hidden by the Nigerian dictator Sami Abacha, found former Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos secret fortune, they found the money stolen by Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc"
Duvalier, they found Saddam Hussein's secret bank accounts, they found Osama bin Laden's secret bank accounts which are being used to fund the Al-Qaida network. In short, they know how to do what they do pretty well.

In December 2003 I wrote that by hiring Kroll Associates to trace the money looted by Moi and his cronies the Kibaki government was showing that it was taking the fight against corruption seriously. These noble anti-corruption efforts were lead from within the Kibaki team by a guy you might have heard about, John Githongo, who was at the time the Permanent Secretary for Governance and Ethics in the Office of the President.

In February 2005 John Githongo travelled to the UK to receive a report from Kroll. Shortly after receiving that report Githongo resigned his position as Permanent Secretary giving no reason and stayed in the UK stating concerns about fears for his safety if he returned back to Kenya. At the time I wrote that whatever Kroll told Githongo must have been explosive, explosive enough to make him resign. In February 2006 Githongo released his report, a copy of which you can download on Mentalacrobatics here.

Earlier today part of the Kroll report on corruption in Kenya was leaked to the whistler blowers' site Wikileaks.

Some of the information in the report focusing on Moi:

Assets accumulated included multimillion pound properties in London, New York and South Africa, as well as a 10,000-hectare ranch in Australia and bank accounts containing hundreds of millions of pounds.

£4m was used to buy a home in Surrey and £2m to buy a flat in Knightsbridge.
The Kibaki government never acted on the report. The Kenyan government official spokesman, Alfred Mutaa, dismissed the report stating, "We did not find that the report was credible. It was based a lot on hearsay." He said the leaking of the report was politically motivated and insisted Kenya was working with foreign governments to recover the stolen money. "Some of the money is in UK bank accounts. We have asked the British government to help us recover the funds, but so far they have refused."

Well he would say that now wouldn't he. Earlier this week Moi endorsed Kibaki for a second term in statehouse.